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One  Nation — One  Cause 

Report  of  the  Meeting  in  Madison  Square  Garden 
New  York,  November  3, 1918 

A Gathering  of  the  Clergy  and  Laity  of 
the  three  great  religious  groups 
Protestants — Catholics —Jews 

A Meeting  unique  in 
this  Country’s  History 


IN  BEHALF  OF  THE 

UNITED  WAR  WORK  CAMPAIGN  --G^ccUr  N«v 

//  NEW  YORK  York,  > A « \ 

1918 


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THIS  pamphlet  contains  a record  of  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  United  Mass  Meeting  of  clergymen 
and  laymen,  held  in  Madison  Square  Garden,  New 
York  City,  November  3,  1918,  to  inaugurate  the 
Greater  New  York  United  War  Work  Campaign. 

The  suggestion  of  holding  such  a meeting  was 
received  with  enthusiasm  by  the  representatives  of  the 
various  religious  faiths  who  came  together  to  give  it 
consideration.  The  most  significant  feature  of  the 
meeting  was  not  that  Madison  Square  Garden  was 
crowded  to  its  capacity  and  throngs  turned  away,  but 
rather  that  such  a gathering  should  have  been  held. 
The  whole  spirit  of  the  occasion  represented  an 
important  step  of  progress  in  our  understanding  of 
the  Fatherhood  of  God  and  the  Brotherhood  of  Man. 

As  Chairman  of  the  Greater  New  York  Committee 
of  the  United  War  Work  Campaign,  I have  felt  that 
a full  and  permanent  record  of  this  meeting  should  be 
made,  and  have  therefore  ventured  personally  to 
publish  it  in  this  form. 

JOHN  D.  ROCKEFELLER,  JR. 
New  York,  January  7,  1919 


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One  Nation— One  Cause 

The  Story  of  the  meeting 
as  told  by  the  New  York  Sun 
November  4 , 1918 


IN  Madison  Square  Garden  yester- 
day afternoon  Billy  Sunday’s  rol- 
licking choir  led  the  singing  at  a 
meeting  which  was  opened  by  the 
Episcopal  Bishop  of  New  York, 
carried  along  by  a Jewish  rabbi  and 
closed  by  the  venerable  Cardinal  Arch- 
bishop of  Baltimore. 

It  was  the  mass  meeting  of  the  seven 
branches  of  war  workers,  the  United 
War  Work  Campaign,  a tremendous 
outpouring  of  religious-minded  men  and 
women  practically  devoted  to  the  wel- 
fare of  the  souls  and  bodies  of  America’s 
fighting  men. 

Before  the  firemen  and  policemen 
slammed  shut  the  portals  of  the  Garden, 
pretty  much  everybody  and  everything 
was  inside  except  bigotry,  intolerance  and 
sectarian  prejudice. 

There  was  no  niche  or  corner  for  any 
of  these  medievalisms,  for  Catholic  and 
Protestant  and  Jew,  sinking  ancient 
differences,  had  come  together  in  perfect 
unity  of  idealism  and  aim,  bent  only 
toward  their  country’s  good  and  glory. 

It  was  the  kind  of  meeting  which  in- 
spired all  participants  to  look  upon  each 


other  with  new  admiration  and  fresh 
respect. 

“ The  Most  Significant  Meeting 
of  the  War” 

Charles  E.  Hughes,  who  was  Chair- 
man, thought  it  was  the  most  significant 
meeting  of  the  war.  So  said  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  Jr.,  holding  that  the  meeting 
represented  the  greatest  voluntary  altru- 
istic effort  which  any  people  have  ever 
been  called  upon  to  make. 

The  Secretary  of  War,  Newton  D. 
Baker,  saw  in  it  the  concentrated  moral 
purpose  of  America,  and  Bourke  Cockran 
assumed  that  the  most  important  and 
imposing  aspect  of  the  meeting  was  the 
meeting  itself. 

These  with  Louis  Marshall  and  Rabbi 
Stephen  S.  Wise  were  the  witnesses  who 
testified  to  this  and  other  matters,  while 
12,000  persons  (or  whatever  number  it  is 
that  the  old  Garden  can  hold  when  it  is 
solidly  jammed)  rose  to  their  appeals,  to 
the  singing  of  Caruso  and  then  went 
away  with  Cardinal  Gibbons’  benediction. 

In  the  great  meeting  of  unity  and  con- 
secration to  patriotism  without  sect  or 
creed,  there  was  no  mention  of  money. 


[3] 


One  Nation — One  Cause 


The  speeches,  all  of  which  rose  spon- 
taneously to  the  extraordinary  high  sig- 
nificance of  the  event,  had  to  do  with 
great  purposes,  with  great  ideals  and  with 
the  glory  of  a country  perfectly  united. 

All  doubt  as  to  popular  interest  dis- 
appeared long  before  the  doors  of  the 
Garden  were  thrown  open.  But  it  was 
inside  and  upon  the  platform  itself  that 
the  truest  spirit  and  meaning  of  the 
coalition  of  sects  and  creeds  were  felt. 

Melting  Pot 
of  Creeds 

Here  one  observed  a noted  Jew  seated 


beside  a famous  Catholic — Henry  Mor- 
genthau  and  Bourke  Cockran — or  a 
Catholic  prelate  arm  in  arm  with  a dig- 
nitary of  Protestantism — Mgr.  John  J. 
Dunn  with  Bishop  David  H.  Greer — or  a 
famous  Baptist  intent  that  a Knight  of 
St.  Gregory  should  have  a place  at  the 
forefront — Charles  E.  Hughes  and 
Morgan  J.  O’Brien. 

And  throughout  these  amenities  much 
more  was  apparent  than  kind  words  and 
compliments.  The  thing  that  illuminated 
all  was  earnest  expression  of  Americanism 
and  patriotic  service. 


The  stenographer  s report  of  the  meeting 
is  printed  in  the  following  pages: 


[4] 


One  Nation 


One  Cause 


John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 


Right  Reverend  Bishops,  Honored 
Guests  and  Friends: 

It  is  my  privilege,  as  the  Chairman  in 
Greater  New  York  of  the  United  War 
Work  Campaign,  to  open  this  meeting, 
and  to  introduce  the  presiding  officer. 

We  are  here  today  in  the  interests  of 
the  greatest  voluntary,  altruistic  endeavor 
which  any  people  have  ever  been  called 
upon  to  make.  This  endeavor  is  known  as 
the  United  War  Work  Campaign.  It  in- 
cludes the  seven  organizations  which 
the  Secretary  of  War  and  the  Secretary 
of  the  Navy  have  authorized  to  do  work 
for  the  soldiers  and  sailors,  not  only  of 
this  land  but  of  other  lands. 

Working  to  a 
Common  Goal 

You  well  know  that  these  organiza- 
tions, although  in  the  past  operating 
independently,  are  all  directing  their 
efforts  toward  a common  goal,  namely, 
that  of  supplying  for  the  soldiers  and 
sailors,  wherever  they  may  be,  the  atmos- 
phere and  the  surroundings  and  the 
recreations  of  home.  It  augurs  well  for 
the  future  of  this  country  that  the  one 
thing  which  these  brave  men  who  are 
fighting  across  the  seas  think  of  most 
tenderly  and  yearn  for  most  truly,  is  the 
home  which  they  have  left  behind. 

At  the  request  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  these  seven  organizations 
are  co-operating  closely  and  sympatheti- 
cally in  the  promotion  of  their  common 
aim  and  purpose. 

Some  people  are  wondering  whether,  in 
the  event  of  an  early  peace,  the  great  sum 
of  money  which  this  campaign  has  been 
organized  to  raise,  will  be  needed.  Let 
me  tell  you  very  emphatically,  that  if 
peace  were  declared  tomorrow,  this  vast 


Temporary  Chairman 

sum  would  be  needed  even  more  than 
if  the  war  were  to  continue  another 
year. 

We  know  well  that  many  months  must 
elapse  after  hostilities  have  ended  before 
the  troops  can  be  brought  back  home 
again,  and  many  months  more  must 
pass  before  the  demobilization  can  be 
completed.  During  these  months  of 
inactivity  and  of  waiting,  the  men  in 
uniform  will  need  as  they  have  never 
needed  before,  the  sympathetic  co-opera- 
tion and  friendly  ministration  that  these 
seven  organizations  are  equipped  to  give 
them. 

This  assemblage  is  unique  in  the  history 
of  our  country.  Here,  for  the  first  time, 
are  gathered  together  representatives, 
both  clerical  and  lay,  of  the  three  great 
religious  groups,  the  Protestants,  the 
Catholics  and  the  Jews.  Without  sur- 
rendering the  faith  that  is  dear  to  each, 
all  are  gladly  minimizing  points  of  differ- 
ence and  uniting  in  a solid  company  to 
uphold  these  splendid  soldiers  and  sailors 
who  are  fighting  that  tyranny  and  oppres- 
sion may  be  ended,  that  the  rule  of 
might  may  be  put  down,  and  the  rule  of 
right  enthroned. 

United  Behind 
the  Service  Star 

This  gathering  represents  the  united 
American  people. 

A little  French  girl  became  possessed 
of  a tiny  American  flag.  She  prized  it 
greatly.  An  American,  seeing  the  flag, 
offered  the  child  a franc  for  it,  but  she 
declined  to  part  with  her  valued  pos- 
session. The  price  was  raised  to  two 
francs,  to  five  francs,  to  ten  Trancs,  but 
the  child  was  unmoved.  Finally  fifteen 


One  Cause 


One  Nation 

francs  were  offered,  whereupon  the  little 
peasant  girl  said,  “Monsieur,  you  do  not 
understand;  it  is  not  the  flag,  but  my 
heart  that  I cannot  sell.” 

It  is  not  our  prejudices,  our  preferences, 
that  we  cannot  part  with,  but  the  welfare 
of  our  soldiers  and  sailors  and  the  unity 
in  spirit  and  in  action  of  the  American 
people  that  we  must  not  part  with  at  any 
price. 


It  is  eminently  fitting  that  the  presid- 
ing officer  of  this  great  meeting  should 
be  a man  of  broadest  human  sympathy,  of 
profound  religious  conviction,  who  has 
rendered  great  public  services  to  his 
country,  both  in  office  and  as  a citizen. 
Such  a man  is  to  occupy  this  position 
today,  and  it  is  my  privilege  to  turn 
over  the  conduct  of  this  meeting  to  the 
Honorable  Charles  E.  Hughes. 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

The  most  appropriate  beginning  of  this  important  service  is  the  singing 
of  our  great  hymn  “America.”  The  audience  then  sang  “America.” 


My  country  ’tis  of  thee, 
Sweet  land  of  liberty, 

Of  thee  I sing. 

Land  where  my  fathers  died, 
Land  of  the  pilgrims’  pride 
From  every  mountainside 
Let  freedom  ring 


Our  fathers’  God,  to  Thee, 
Author  of  liberty, 

To  Thee  we  sing. 

Long  may  our  land  be  bright 
With  freedom’s  holy  light; 
Protect  us  by  Thy  might, 
Great  God,  our  King. 


Invocation 


Right  Rev.  David  H.  Greer,  D.  D 


Lord,  God  of  Hosts,  in  whom  is  our 
hope  and  our  trust,  we  ask  Thy  blessing 
on  this  American  nation,  on  the  whole 
body  of  its  citizenry,  and  especially  at 
this  time  upon  its  soldiers  and  its  sailors 
on  whom  the  stress  of  battle  has  fallen, 
and  upon  whom  it  presses  so  heavily 
and  so  hard. 

Great  and  gracious  Father,  heal  and 
protect  them,  guard  and  defend  them, 
both  in  soul  and  body,  in  facing  foes 
without  and  fighting  foes  within. 

To  this  end  we  ask  Thy  blessing  upon 
this  meeting,  under  various  religious  and 
beneficent  agencies  and  societies  gathered 
and  represented  here  in  the  fellowship 
of  a common  love,  both  for  God  and  man. 
In  that  grace  of  fellowship  may  they 
strive  and  labor  together  for  the 
protection  of  those  who,  on  land  and 


sea,  are  defending  and  protecting  us. 

Give  to  this  American  nation  the 
disposition  gladly,  willingly,  in  sacrifice, 
to  give  to  these  religious  societies  freely 
and  willingly  of  their  substance  and 
their  support,  that  they  may  minister 
more  helpfully  to  the  welfare  of  those  who 
counting  not  their  lives  dear  unto  them- 
selves, are  making  sacrifice  for  them  and 
for  us. 

May  that  grace  of  fellowship  repre- 
sented here  today  continue  and  abide  in 
the  coming  days  of  peace  as  in  the  present 
time  of  war.  May  that  grace  of  fellow- 
ship in  mercy  and  in  all  good  works  be 
the  greatness  and  the  glory  of  this 
American  people.  And  to  Thy  name,  0 
great  and  gracious  Father,  shall  be  the 
praise  and  the  honor  both  now  and 
evermore.  Amen. 


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One  Nation 


One  Cause 


Chairman  Hughes : 

We  shall  now  recite  in  unison  the  24 th  Psalm,  led  by 

Rabbi  Stephen  S.  Wise 

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ftr'be  earth  is  tte  Lork’s,  anil  t be  fullness 

Vfci/  thereof;  the  Pmrlk,  antf  ttep  that  kPjell 
therein. 

2 JFor  $e  hath  founkek  it  upon  the  seas, 
ana  establtstek  it  upon  the  kooks. 

3 W\)ts  stall  ascena  into  the  till  of  tte 
Lork?  or  Into  stall  stana  in  pis  tolp  place? 

4 pe  that  hath  dean  tanas,  ana  a pure 
teart;  into  hath  not  liftea  up  tis  soul  unto 
Panitp,  nor  stoorn  keceitfullp. 

5 pe  stall  receive  tte  blessing  from  tte 
Lora,  ana  righteousness  from  tte  ©ok  of  tts 
salPation. 

6 ®tia  is  tte  generation  of  them  ttat  seek 
|)tm,  ttat  seek  ttp  face,  © 3faeob.  S>elat. 

7 Lift  up  pour  tcaas,  © pe  gates;  ana  be 
pe  lift  up,  pe  ePerlasting  boors:  ana  tte  l&tng 
of  glorp  stall  come  tn. 

8 W\)a  ts  ttis  fetng  of  glorp?  Cte  Lora 
strong  ana  migttp,  tte  Lora  mtgttp  in  battle. 

9 Lift  up  pour  teaks,  © pe  gates;  ePen 
lift  them  up,  pe  ePerlasting  Poors;  ank  tte 

Eing  of  glorp  stall  come  in. 

10  Wt)o  is  ttis  Lting  of  glorp?  ®te  Lork 
of  tests,  be  is  tte  Bing  of  glorp.  Jtelat. 

Song — “0  God,  Our  Help  In  Ages  Past” 

0 God,  our  help  in  ages  past, 

Our  hope  for  years  to  come, 

Our  shelter  from  the  stormy  blast, 

And  our  eternal  home. 

A thousand  ages  in  Thy  sight 

Are  like  an  evening  gone ; 

Short  as  the  watch  that  ends  the  night 

Before  the  rising  sun. 

Under  the  shadow  of  Thy  throne 

Thy  saints  have  dwelt  secure ; 
Sufficient  is  Thine  arm  alone, 

And  our  defence  is  sure. 

Time,  like  an  ever-rolling  stream, 

Bears  all  its  sons  away; 

They  fly  forgotten,  as  a dream 

Dies  at  the  opening  day. 

Before  the  hills  in  order  stood, 

Or  earth  received  its  frame, 

From  everlasting  Thou  art  God, 

To  endless  years  the  same. 

0 God,  our  help  in  ages  past, 

Our  hope  for  years  to  come, 

Be  Thou  our  guard  while  life  shall  last, 

And  our  eternal  home. 

Prayer 


Rev.  Hugh 

Let  us  pray. 

0 God,  in  whom  our  fathers  trusted 
and  were  not  confounded,  we  come  to 
Thee,  we  bring  to  Thee  our  nation’s  case 
and  cause.  In  humility,  in  deep  sin- 
cerity, we  believe  and  have  believed  in 
the  justice  and  necessity  of  that  cause. 

0 Thou  that  searchest  the  hearts  of 
men,  try  us  and  see  if  there  be  any 
wicked  way  in  us. 


Black,  D.  D. 

Humbly  we  beseech  Thee  for  a blessing 
upon  the  deepest  interests  of  this  coun- 
try. We  pray  for  Thy  servant,  the 
President  of  these  United  States,  for  his 
cabinet,  and  the  whole  Government  of 
the  land,  and  for  those  in  authority 
among  the  Allied  nations,  that  great 
grace  and  wisdom  may  be  given  to  them. 

We  pray  for  the  victory  which  we 
believe  alone  can  establish  peace  in 


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One  Nation  — One  Cause 


righteousness,  and  so  we  pray  for  our 
Army  and  Navy  and  Air  Force,  and 
those  of  the  Allied  nations. 

We  pray  for  those  that  have  gone  from 
us  to  make,  if  need  be,  the  ultimate 
sacrifice.  Bless,  0 God,  and  keep  them, 
and  care  for  them,  and  give  them  courage 
in  the  hour  of  danger  and  mercy  in  the 
hour  of  victory.  Keep  them  from  the  evil 
that  is  in  the  world.  Above  all,  grant 
that  we  as  a whole  nation  may  keep  in 
mind  the  deeper  interests  ever  at  stake. 

Save  us,  we  beseech  Thee,  from  for- 
getting Thee  in  any  of  our  ways,  and 
so  we  pray  for  great  consecration  of 
this  nation  to  the  highest  ends  of  Thy 
Kingdom.  May  Thy  Kingdom  come  in 
its  beauty  and  in  its  power,  the  Kingdom 
which  is  righteousness  and  peace  and 
love  and  joy,  until  the  very  kingdoms  of 
this  earth  have  become  the  Kingdom  of 
God  and  His  Christ. 

Purify  our  ambitions,  0 Lord  we  beseech 
Thee,  and  grant  that  with  clear  hearts  we 
may  stand  in  Thy  will  and  walk  in  Thy  way. 

Be  with  these  great  organizations  in 
their  labor  of  love,  and  may  they  feel 
that  they  have  back  of  them  the  complete 
support  of  this  whole  people;  so  give  to 


this  people  generosity  of  heart,  and  may 
they  understand  the  large  ends  that  Thy 
servants  have  and  are  serving. 

And  now,  0 God,  forever  our  hope  is  in 
Thee.  We  give  to  Thee  a renewed  con- 
secration to  Thy  service,  and  to  Thy  will, 
that  Thy  Kingdom  may  come  in  us  and 
through  us. 

0 God,  merciful  and  gracious,  we 
bring  to  Thee  the  whole  world  in  its 
tragedy  and  misery,  and  our  only  comfort 
is  to  remember  that  it  is  Thy  world. 
The  burden  is  too  heavy  for  u's  to  carry, 
but  we  believe  that  Thou  hast  a purpose 
with  the  world,  a purpose  of  love,  a pur- 
pose to  redeem,  and  we  are  content  so  to 
believe,  and  we  only  ask  to  be  in  the  line 
of  Thy  purpose,  to  be  used  by  Thee  as 
Thy  servants. 

Mercifully  hear  our  prayers  on  behalf 
of  those  who  mourn,  and  all  in  distress 
through  the  agony  of  this  time.  These 
prayers  we  make  out  of  a full  heart, 
praying  that  the  unity  of  spirit  so 
symbolized  here  this  day,  and  the 
bonds  of  peace,  may  remain  with  us — 
that  Thy  Kingdom  may  come  and  Thy 
will  may  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in 
Heaven.  Amen. 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes 


Fellow-citizens:  This  is  perhaps  the 
most  significant  meeting  of  the  war. 

We  have  met  hitherto  to  commemorate 
the  anniversaries  of  epoch-making  events, 
to  welcome  the  distinguished  missions 
from  our  Allies,  to  promote  our  great  war 
loans,  to  organize  and  equip  our  batta- 
lions of  relief,  to  pay  tribute  to  the  heroic 
achievements  of  our  brave  soldiers  and 
sailors  which  have  thrilled  every  Ameri- 
can heart  with  intense  pride  of  country, 
and  have  given  new  meaning  to  our  flag 


as  it  floats  yonder  on  that  long  battle- 
line for  liberty. 

There  is  one  line  in  that  great  hymn  of 
ours,  in  a verse  that  we  did  not  sing 
today,  that  I always  like  to  repeat: 
“Land  of  the  noble  free,  thy  name  I 
love.” 

In  this  meeting  there  is  evidenced  the 
deepest  current  in  our  life.  Here  we 
stand,  Christian  and  Jew,  Catholic  and 
Protestant,  united  in  the  ministries  of 
love  and  faith. 


[8] 


One  Nation 


One  Cause 


Over  there,  along  that  battle  front, 
the  tongues  of  fire  are  demanding  an 
unconditional  surrender,  in  order  that 
liberty  and  humanity  may  have  complete 
victory,  in  order  that  the  way  may  be 
opened  to  a righteous  and  therefore  an 
abiding  peace. 

Breaking  Down  the  Barriers 
that  Separate  Human  Hearts 

But  among  ourselves  there  has  been  an 
irresistible  influence  at  work  achieving 
its  own  notable  conquests.  As  unscrupu- 
lous military  power  is  being  crushed  to 
earth  on  the  battlefield  of  Europe,  so 
here  at  home  the  arrogance  of  bigotry 
and  prejudice  and  the  antagonisms  which 
separate  human  hearts  are  being  broken 
down  under  this  sense  of  mutual  obligation. 

To  an  extent  never  realized  before  in 
our  history,  we  represent,  not  simply  the 
political  principles  of  a free  republic,  but 
the  unity  of  brotherhood  with  a sense  of 
fellowship  which  is  overcoming  every 
disintegrating  force  in  this  great  struggle. 

That  is  the  lesson  of  past  achievement 
in  the  United  War  Work  campaign. 
That  is  the  motive  power  of  this  present 
endeavor.  And  what  is  more  even  than 
that,  that  is  the  bright  promise  of  the 
future  in  the  relations  that  we  shall  bear 
to  each  other  in  a common  service  of 
humanity. 

We  recognize  fully  that  democracy 
rests  upon  the  freedom  of  expression  of 
individual  opinion  and  conviction.  We 
know  that  religious  toleration  is  essential 
to  the  perpetuity  of  free  institutions; 
civil  and  religious  liberty  is  the  very 
cornerstone  of  the  republic. 

Common  and  United  Service 
for  Human  Welfare 

But  religious  toleration  and  the  per- 
ception of  the  possibility  and  the  beauty 
of  unified  service  to  our  fellow-men  are 
quite  distinct,  and  in  this  war  there  has 


been  a resistless  power  called  forth  by  its 
exigencies  that  has  cut  a deep  channel 
through  which  there  will  flow  perennially 
the  common  and  united  service  of  these 
great  organizations  of  human  welfare. 

Wherever  the  millions  of  our  brave 
boys  are  found,  either  in  camp  here  or 
abroad,  or  at  the  front,  there  will  be 
found  these  agencies.  There  are  many 
names,  but  one  supreme  mission. 

These  are  the  seven  stars  of  helpful- 
ness, and  whether  it  is  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association,  or  the  Young 
Women’s  Christian  Association,  or  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  or  the  Jewish  Wel- 
fare Board,  or  the  War  Camp  Community 
Service,  or  the  Library  Association,  or 
the  Salvation  Army,  it  is  the  same  spirit 
dominating  all  of  those  organizations. 

The  Forces  of  Righteousness 
Learning  to  Work  Together 

Our  boys,  our  sons,  our  friends,  our 
lovers,  are  learning  a new  respect  for 
these  instrumentalities  of  good.  They 
are  learning  to  understand  them;  we  are 
learning  to  understand  them.  And  in  the 
future  the  forces  of  righteousness  in  this 
great  land  will  be  increased  ten-fold, 
because  we  have  learned  to  work  together. 

Ministers  and  laymen,  priests  and 
rabbis,  secretaries,  field  workers,  all  will 
feel  the  inevitable  reaction  of  this  new 
sense  of  community  in  interest,  this  new 
sense  of  comradeship. 

We  must  entertain  no  illusion;  the 
millenium  is  not  going  to  follow  this  war. 
We  shall  have  an  abundance  of  trouble, 
we  shall  have  great  necessity  for  for- 
bearance with  each  other,  as  we  exercise 
our  inalienable  right  of  expressing  our 
individual  opinions.  No  one  is  surren- 
dering his  faith,  no  one  is  yielding  his 
conviction.  We  shall  worship  as  we  see 
the  truth,  with  head  erect  and  level  eye 
seeking  that  of  our  brethren,  as  we  act 
according  to  the  dictates  of  our  conscience. 


[9] 


One  nation 


One  Cause 


That  is  true  Americanism.  Any  man 
who  seeks  to  depreciate  his  fellow-citizens 
because  of  a difference  in  religious  convic- 
tion, has  not  learned  the  first  principle  of 
Americanism. 

But  while  we  recognize  the  obligation 
in  a democracy  of  expressing  the  truth  as 
we  see  it,  and  while  we  worship  according 
to  our  respective  faiths,  we  have  learned 
to  know  that  there  is  in  this  world  a 
great  variety  of  human  need. 

Human  hearts  need  fellowship;  human 
suffering  must  be  ameliorated ; lives  must 
be  given  the  fair  and  free  opportunity 
that  we  cherish  for  ourselves;  and  in 
every  manner  of  endeavor  we  must  try 
to  make  true  in  fact  what  we  express  in 
political  principle  when  we  speak  of 
equality  of  privilege  and  opportunity. 

Human  Need  Recognized 
as  Never  Before 

We  are  recognizing  human  need  as 
never  before.  We  are  recognizing  the 
means  of  adjustment  to  meet  it  as  never 
before,  and  in  these  great  agencies  or- 
ganized as  they  have  been  and  trained  as 
they  are  in  this  effort,  we  shall  prepare 
for  these  coming  days  in  which  victory 
will  give  us  the  opportunity  that  the 


race  has  long  waited  for,  through  the 
diffusion  of  the  privilege  of  liberty,  and 
by  breaking  down  not  the  differences  of 
individual  conviction,  but  those  barriers 
of  hate  and  misunderstanding  and  bit- 
terness, we  shall  unite  to  make  this 
world  a place  of  peace,  plenty  and  pros- 
perity, with  one  unity  rooted  in  a pro- 
found religious  conviction  which  no 
differences  of  mode  or  particular  prin- 
ciple can  disturb. 

Now,  the  United  War  Work  campaign 
must  go  on.  We  are  on  the  eve  of  vic- 
tory. The  Germans  must  yield. 

But,  as  the  chairman  of  the  committee 
has  said,  whether  the  war  lasts  a few 
months,  a few  weeks  or  a year  longer,  we 
must  maintain  these  instrumentalities, 
needed  now  more  than  ever,  nourishing, 
fostering,  encouraging,  inspiring  our 
brave  boys;  and  when  they  return,  these 
makers  of  the  new  America,  we  shall 
commit  to  them  with  the  promise  of  this 
unity  along  the  lines  of  our  endeavor,  we 
shall  commit  to  them  the  country  we 
love,  knowing  that  democracy  is  not  of 
the  flesh  but  of  the  spirit;  that  its  forms 
in  themselves  are  vain,  and  its  only  mean- 
ing and  justification  must  be  found  in 
service  to  mankind. 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

I now  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  one  of  the  most  eminent 
representatives  of  our  Jewish  brethren.  And  let  me  say  here  that  while  all  the 
divisions  of  the  religious  world,  these  great  divisions,  have  representation  here,  I am 
sure,  speaking  for  myself,  and  I believe  speaking  for  others,  that  we  are  not  here  as 
the  representatives  of  divisions,  but  each  with  the  voice  of  those  whom  he  may 
especially  represent,  speaking  the  word  of  unity. 


Hon.  Louis  Marshall 


This  meeting,  and  the  cause  which  has 
convoked  it,  mark  the  beginning  of  a 
new  era  in  our  history. 

When  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  was  adopted,  it  was  still  found 


necessary  to  declare  that  no  religious 
test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a qualifica- 
tion to  any  office  or  public  trust  under 
the  United  States,  and  that  Congress 
shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  establish- 


[10] 


One  Nation 


One  Cause 


ment  of  religion  or  prohibiting  the  free 
exercise  thereof. 

It  was  also  found  necessary  to  insert’in 
the  Constitution  of  this  State  the  guaran- 
ty that  the  free  exercise  and  enjoyment 
of  religious  profession  and  worship  with- 
out discrimination  or  preference  shall 
forever  be  allowed  in  this  State  to  all 
mankind. 

These  principles  were  a departure  from 
the  policies  and  the  practices  of  the  old 
world,  where  reigning  dynasties  restrained 
liberty  of  conscience,  and  where  those  who 
dissented  from  the  State  religion  were 
subjected  to  ignominious  conditions  and 
were  merely  tolerated. 

The  principle  of  religious  liberty  sown 
on  American  soil  has  grown  mightily  for 
more  than  a century.  Every  possible 
creed  has  been  sheltered  and  protected, 
and  its  votaries  have  of  right  practiced  its 
doctrines  and  lived  in  accordance  with 
their  beliefs. 

As  a natural  consequence  there  have 
arisen  in  the  religious  life  of  the  country 
distinct  lines  of  cleavage.  Politically, 
men  of  all  creeds  have  co-operated  in 
their  respective  parties.  Commercially, 
and  economically,  men  have  been  united, 
regardless  of  racial  or  social  antecedents. 

Until  now,  however,  it  has  rarely  hap- 
pened that  the  various  religious  societies 
of  the  country  have  co-operated  for  the 
accomplishment  of  a unified  purpose. 
Protestants,  Catholics  and  Jews  have 
gone  their  several  ways,  and  have  striven 
independently  for  the  betterment  of 
those  of  their  own  households,  and  through 
them  for  the  amelioration  of  the  human 
family. 

One  of  the  First  Fruits  of  the 
Struggle  for  World  Freedom 

And  now,  behold  one  of  the  first  fruits 
of  the  great  struggle  for  world  freedom, 
in  which  we  are  all  engaged  as  a single 
unit!  Our  sons  are  fighting  side  by  side  for 


the  preservation  of  liberty.  They  recog- 
nize no  distinction  of  person,  faith  or 
pedigree.  As  companions  in  arms,  they 
know  but  one  test — that  of  loyalty  to  the 
flag. 

Impressed  by  this  lesson  heralded  from 
the  battlefields,  Protestant,  Catholic  and 
Jew  have  joined  hands  and  are  at  this 
moment  actively  engaged  for  the  ac- 
complishment of  the  common  purpose  of 
providing  for  the  spiritual  and  social 
needs  of  our  boys,  the  defenders  of  the 
nation  and  the  protagonists  for  liberty. 

The  Augury  of  a 
Better  Day 

It  is  an  inspiring  occasion.  It  is  the 
augury  of  a better  day.  It  gives  promise 
that  the  misunderstandings  and  differ- 
ences of  the  past  may  speedily  disappear 
and  be  laid  away  in  the  same  grave  that 
shall  mark  the  end  of  mediaeval  autoc- 
racy, despotism  and  tyranny. 

We  now  understand  better  than  ever 
before,  that  the  prosperity  and  the  hap- 
piness of  a nation  depend  upon  the  com- 
plete unity  of  its  citizens,  and  that  it  can 
only  attain  its  highest  development  when 
all  prejudices  have  been  banished,  and 
when  loyalty  and  devotion  to  the  na- 
tional ideals,  which  alone  constitute  good 
citizenship,  shall  be  the  supreme  test  by 
which  men  are  judged. 

Hath  Not  One  God 
Created  Us  All?” 

In  times  like  these,  when  every  mo- 
ment has  sacred  significance,  differences 
of  race  and  creed  are  unimportant,  and 
every  true  man  responds  to  that  call  of 
brotherhood,  voiced  by  our  ancient 
prophet,  “Have  we  not  all  one  Father? 
Hath  not  one  God  created  us  all?” 

This  does  not  mean  that  either  Protes- 
tant, or  Catholic  or  Jew  is  called  upon  to 
abjure  to  the  extent  of  one  jot  or  tittle, 
the  religious  principles  to  which  he  has 
been  devoted.  On  the  contrary,  by 


[11] 


One  Nation — One  Cause 


adopting  the  ideal  of  brotherhood,  and  by 
casting  aside  hateful  prejudices,  he  be- 
comes a better  Protestant,  Catholic  or 
Jew  than  ever  before,  because  he  dedi- 
cates to  mankind  the  essence  of  those 
moral  concepts  for  which  good  men  of 
every  faith  and  every  creed  have  striven 
during  all  the  centuries. 

Recognizing  Unselfish  and 
Magnanimous  Action 

I take  pleasure  at  this  time  in  bearing 
testimony  to  and  making  acknowledg- 
ment for  the  unselfish  and  magnanimous 
action  of  the  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Association  and  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus, who,  by  kindly  assistance  cheerfully 
rendered,  have  enabled  the  Jewish  Wel- 
fare Board  to  overcome  the  many  diffi- 
culties which  it  has  encountered  under 
new  and  unusual  conditions.  Protestants 
and  Catholics  have  ministered  to  the 
needs  of  our  Jewish  boys  in  camp  and  on 
the  battlefield,  in  hospitals  and  at  the 
hour  of  death;  and  we  on  our  part  have 
striven,  to  the  extent  of  our  power,  to 
lend  to  their  sons  a helping  hand  in  the 
hour  of  trial. 

And  now  together  we  are  appealing  to 
all  Americans  to  supply  the  funds  with 
which  to  further  the  welfare  of  our  sol- 
diers and  sailors  at  the  fighting  front, 
on  the  sea,  and  in  the  various  camps  and 
cantonments.  Every  dollar  collected  is 
to  be  shared  by  the  seven  activities  under 
whose  auspices  this  campaign  is  con- 
ducted. Every  dollar  of  the  great  sum 
that  is  asked  for  will  be  required  for  the 
promotion  of  the  religious,  social  and 
physical  welfare  of  all  of  our  sons. 

The  Unquestioned 
Need 

General  Pershing  has  testified  to  the 
unquestioned  necessity  of  the  work  which 


these  agencies  have  done  and  are  doing 
because  of  its  salutary  effect  on  the 
morale  of  the  army.  To  know  that  those 
at  home  are  thinking  of  them  and  are  car- 
ing for  their  comfort  and  ease  of  mind,  to 
feel  that  cherished  ties  have  not  been  sev- 
ered, and  that  they  are  not  bereft  of  the 
ministrations  of  human  love,  is  an  en- 
couragement to  our  men  and  an  inspira- 
tion to  noble  deeds. 

Happily,  the  hour  of  victory  has  come. 
The  ends  for  which  we  have  fought,  the 
destruction  of  militarism  and  autocracy, 
are  about  to  be  realized.  The  trials  of 
battle  will  soon  be  over,  but  the  needs  of 
the  welfare  agencies  for  which  we  are 
seeking  funds  will  be  as  great  as  ever— as 
Mr.  Rockefeller  has  said — and  will  con- 
tinue until  all  of  our  boys  have  returned 
to  their  homes  and  their  families.  The 
trying  days  of  an  accomplished  victory 
are  before  us.  Were  peace  proclaimed 
today,  a year  would  elapse  before  our 
two  million  men  could  once  more  be 
with  us.  They  have  displayed  remark- 
able heroism  and  enthusiasm.  They 
have  been  amenable  to  military  disci- 
pline, and  have  evinced  the  cheerful  self- 
restraint  of  noble  manhood.  They  will 
now  more  than  ever  require  advice, 
guidance  and  instruction.  They  will 
crave  opportunities  for  social  enter- 
tainment. They  must  depend  upon 
the  facilities  which  these  seven 
organizations  can  give  them,  for  self- 
development. 

Another  Glorious  Chapter 
of  American  Citizenship 

Without  fear  in  conflict,  let  them  return 
to  us  when  the  battle  has  been  won,  with- 
out reproach,  to  write  another  glorious 
chapter  in  the  history  of  American 
citizenship. 


[12] 


One  Nation 


One  Cause 


Next  was  sung  “ The  Star  Spangled  Banner"  and  as  an  encore  “ Over  There." 

Enrico  Caruso 


Oh!  say  can  you  see,  by  the  dawn’s  early  light, 

What  so  proudly  we  hailed  at  the  twilight’s  last  gleaming? 
Whose  broad  stripes  and  bright  stars,  through  the  perilous  fight, 
O’er  the  ramparts  we  watched  were  so  gallantly  streaming? 
And  the  rockets’  red  glare,  and  bombs  bursting  in  air, 

Gave  proof  through  the  night  that  our  flag  was  still  there! 

Oh!  say,  does  that  Star  Spangled  Banner  yet  wave 
O’er  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of  the  brave? 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

We  shall  now  have  the  pleasure  of  listening  to  that 
distinguished  representative  of  the  Catholic  faith , 

Hon.  W.  Bourke  Cochran 


Your  Eminence,  Right  Reverend  Pre- 
lates, Reverend  Clergy  of  every  Denom- 
ination, Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and 
Gentlemen : 

The  importance  of  this  meeting  has 
been  described  in  felicitous  and  forceful 
terms  by  the  distinguished  gentleman 
who  recently  stepped  down  from  the 
bench  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States,  and  who  exercises  here  the 
functions  of  chairman  in  a manner  en- 
tirely commensurate  with  the  dignity  of 
that  tribunal,  and  also  by  my  friend  who 
spoke  particularly  for  members  of  the 
Jewish  faith. 

The  Meeting— an  Auspicious  Advance 
in  the  Relations  of  Civilised  Men 

To  me  its  most  important  and  imposing 
feature  is  the  gathering  itself.  For  it 
embodies  what  I believe  will  prove  to  be 
the  most  auspicious  advance  ever  accom- 
plished in  the  relations  of  civilized  men  to 
each  other. 

In  assembling  here  under  the  conditions 
described  by  the  previous  speakers,  we 


have  progressed  far  beyond  the  line  of 
mere  religious  toleration.  Religious  tolera- 
tion is  based  on  the  assumption  that 
men  of  radically  different  beliefs  may,  in 
spite  of  them,  succeed  in  co-operating  for 
a patriotic  purpose  by  completely  ignor- 
ing their  religious  divisions. 

But  this  assemblage  is  itself  conclusive, 
triumphant  demonstration  that  in  order 
to  combine  for  effective  civic  action  it  is 
not  necessary  that  Americans  should 
suppress  all  mention  of  their  separate 
creeds;  but  on  the  contrary  that  union  of 
the  whole  population  for  patriotic  pur- 
poses, far  from  being  impeded  or  pre- 
vented by  differences  of  faith,  is  actually 
promoted  by  freest  exercise  and  openest 
profession  of  the  most  widely  divergent 
spiritual  beliefs. 

As  Mr.  Hughes  has  well  said,  and  as 
Mr.  Rockefeller  said  before  him,  here  for 
the  first  time  in  history,  Jew  and  Chris- 
tian, Catholic  and  Protestant  of  every 
denomination,  have  come  together  in 
close  and  cordial  union,  not  by  ignoring 


[13] 


One  Nation  — One  Cause 


their  religious  differences  but  by  actually 
utilizing  them  to  make  our  nation  more 
effective  in  the  great  cause  of  establishing 
liberty  and  justice  throughout  the  world. 

The  capital  lesson  of  this  gathering  is 
the  glorious  truth  it  proclaims  and  estab- 
lishes, that  no  belief  which  any  of  these 
creeds  inculcates — no  rite  which  any  of 
them  prescribes — can  have  any  other 
effect  upon  the  soldier  who  professes  and 
observes  it  than  to  make  him  a braver 
and  better  upholder  of  our  flag,  a fitter 
and  doughtier  champion  of  our  civiliza- 
tion— of  that  civilization  built  upon  the 
law  which  is  embodied  in  the  Ten 
Commandments,  which  the  Jewish 
Prophets  enforced,  which  was  expounded 
and  expanded  in  the  Sermon  on  the 
Mount. 

With  the  merits  of  these  differing  creeds 
this  gathering  does  not  concern  itself. 
That  is  a matter  each  one  will  determine 
for  himself,  according  to  the  light  which 
he  has  been  given.  But  the  influence 
which  any  one  of  them  can  exercise  on 
the  fighting  value  of  the  soldier  is  a matter 
that  deeply  concerns  us  all,  and  the  whole 
human  family. 

Many  in  this  assemblage  reject  doc- 
trines— regarding  them  probably  as  ex- 
travagant and  absurd — which  others 
cherish  beyond  all  material  possessions. 
But  so  long  as  the  man  who  accepts  them 
is  for  that  reason  a better  soldier,  we  are 
here  combining  our  resources  for  the 
purpose  of  providing  agencies  through 
which  his  faith  will  be  strengthened  and 
he  himself  made  more  fervent  in  profess- 
ing it,  more  diligent  in  practicing  it. 

The  Essential  Thing 
is  Unity 

I know  that  a great  number — probably 
the  vast  majority — of  this  audience  dis- 
believes utterly  the  doctrine  of  Tran- 
substantiation.  But  everyone  here  real- 
izes— thank  God  the  whole  community 


has  become  wise  enough  and  broad 
enough  to  see — that  the  Catholic  soldier 
who  receives  in  Communion  what  he 
believes  to  be  his  God,  his  Creator — not 
an  effigy  or  a representation  of  Him — but 
God  Himself — the  Creator  of  this  earth 
on  which  he  stands,  of  the  heavens  above 
his  head,  of  the  planets  circling  around 
the  sun,  of  the  constellations  sweeping 
their  majestic  courses  through  the  mid- 
night sky — of  the  whole  universe  with 
everything  that  it  contains,  animate  and 
inanimate,  visible  and  invisible— could 
never  deliberately  dishonor  that  God. 
And  there  is  no  way  by  which  he  could 
dishonor  him  so  grievously  as  by  betraying 
lack  of  courage  in  the  face  of  the  enemy. 

And  so  without  regard  to  what  many 
of  us  may  think  about  the  truth  of  this 
doctrine,  we  are  all  resolved  on  encourag- 
ing observance  of  it,  because  it  is  im- 
possible that  fear  of  death,  or  of  anything 
that  might  befall  him  in  the  field  could 
deter  from  fullest  performance  of  his 
duty  the  man  who  has  effected  what  he 
believes  to  be  a mystical  union  with  the  God 
who  will  judge  him  if  he  falls  in  battle. 
But  this  belief  does  not  prevent  him  in 
the  slightest  degree  from  closest  co- 
operation with  his  comrades  in  arms  who 
do  not  share  his  faith. 

Between  him  and  every  other  soldier 
there  can  be  but  one  rivalry,  and  that  is 
as  to  which  of  them  will  be  first  over  the 
top,  and  which  will  show  the  greater 
prowess  when  they  reach  the  enemy  in 
his  trenches. 

Obviously,  anything  which  tends  to 
produce  such  a frame  of  mind  in  a body  of 
soldiers  constituting  more  than  one-third 
of  our  whole  fighting  force,  is  a matter  of 
deepest  interest  to  us  all.  And  therefore, 
not  merely  do  we  acknowledge  the  great 
value  to  the  cause  we  all  have  at  heart  of 
a faith  which  many  of  us  do  not  share, 
but  we  go  further.  This  meeting  in  a 


[14] 


One  Nation 


One  Cause 


spirit  that  is  truly  Catholic— Catholic  in  the 
most  exalted  sense — declares  the  task  of 
supplying  agencies  by  which  the  religious 
fervor  of  every  soldier  can  be  stimulated 
to  the  highest  degree,  is  not  a mere 
obligation  of  piety  incumbent  only  or 
even  principally  on  those  who  share  his 
faith,  but  it  is  an  opportunity  of  patriot- 
ism which  should  be  improved  by  all 
citizens,  since  we  are  all  beneficiaries  of 
the  valor  that  it  encourages. 

Moved  Not  to  Fury  or  to  Hate, 
but  to  Cordial  Co-operation 

And  so,  my  friends,  I repeat  here  with 
the  utmost  fervor  and  the  utmost  sincer- 
ity the  expression  of  joy  voiced  by  Mr. 
Hughes,  Mr.  Rockefeller  and  by  Mr. 
Marshall,  that  this  war  has  already 
produced  fruit  so  valuable  as  to  com- 
pensate in  some  degree  for  the  terrible 
sacrifices  of  blood  and  treasure  it  has 
entailed,  since  it  has  resulted  in  this 
meeting  and  its  impressive  demonstra- 
tion that  the  American  people  are  moved 
by  their  various  religious  beliefs  not  to 
fury  or  hate  against  each  other,  but  to 
cordial  co-operation  in  accomplishing  the 
glorious  purposes  for  which  our  country 
drew  the  sword  and  which  are  inculcated 
by  every  creed  represented  here,  however 
widely  they  all  may  differ  on  other 
matters. 

But  this  perfect  union  for  patriotic  and 
humanitarian  purposes  of  all  the  spiritual 
and  philanthrophic  forces  in  our  national 
life,  is  even  more  valuable  for  what  it 
promises  than  for  what  it  actually  em- 
bodies. 

Mr.  Rockefeller  has  pointed  out  with 
great  force  that  if  this  war  ended  to- 
morrow, the  necessity  for  supplying  the 
spiritual  necessities  of  our  soldiers  would 
still  remain  urgent.  And  I add  my  voice 
to  that  statement.  As  Mr.  Hughes  has 
well  said,  the  period  of  demobilization  is 
very  apt  to  be  a period  of  demoralization. 


The  spiritual  forces  represented  here 
will  not  have  completed  their  tasks  when 
victory  is  gained  in  the  field.  The  larger 
and  the  more  complex  difficulty  will 
remain  of  guarding  during  the  period  of 
idleness  that  must  supervene  before  they 
are  discharged  from  military  service,  the 
morals  of  these  millions  we  sent  abroad, 
and  of  preparing  them  to  exercise,  when 
they  return,  the  duties  of  citizenship  with 
a loyalty  as  intelligent  as  their  valor  in 
battle  has  been  effective. 

Success  is  already  hovering  over  our 
banners.  Victory  in  the  field  is  now 
a matter  of  but  a few  hours.  The  demand 
for  “unconditional  surrender,”  which  Mr. 
Hughes  has  voiced  so  eloquently  here, 
which  Mr.  Wilson  formulated  the  very 
day  we  entered  the  war,  when  he  declared 
that  there  could  be  no  compromise  with 
the  military  autocracy  of  Germany  which 
had  plunged  the  world  into  this  cataclysm 
of  ruin  and  disaster,  is  practically  fulfilled. 

Dissolution  of  the  German  Empire  is 
already  in  progress.  There  can  be  no 
surrender  more  complete  than  disappear- 
ance of  that  military  system  which  the 
Hohenzollerns  established.  But  with  its 
disappearance,  with  the  fall  of  imperial- 
ism amid  crumbling  thrones  and  dis- 
appearing armies,  will  arise  those  other 
difficulties — infinitely  more  complex  and 
wholly  without  precedent— which  Mr. 
Hughes  has  out-lined  and  to  which  I can 
make  no  more  than  very  brief  allusion. 

The  Spirit  of 
Revolution 

Revolution  after  convulsing  Russia 
threatens  to  overwhelm  all  Europe.  And 
revolution  as  we  can  discern  it  approach- 
ing now,  is  vastly  different  from  any 
revolution  with  which  we  have  become 
acquainted  through  history. 

The  revolutions  in  France  of  1789,  of 
1830  and  of  1848,  were  essentially  bour- 
geois movements,  embodying  the  deter- 


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One  Nation 


One  Cause 


mination  of  small  property  owners — 
professional  men,  journalists,  philoso- 
phers, men  of  business — to  obtain  certain 
political  rights  which  they  deemed  essen- 
tial to  security  of  such  property  as  they 
possessed.  The  revolutions  in  England 
of  1640  and  of  1688  were  successful 
efforts  of  large  land  owners  to  acquire 
themselves  powers  which  the  Crown  was 
attempting  to  seize. 

But  revolution  as  it  has  desolated 
Russia  and  menaces  the  whole  world,  is 
not  a bourgeois  movement.  It  is  levelled 
directly  against  the  bourgeoisie  who  are 
now  the  objects  of  its  fiercest  hatred,  as 
aristocrats  were  to  the  revolutionary 
elements  of  France  a century  and  a 
quarter  ago.  And  this  movement  against 
the  bourgeoisie  is  a movement  against 
the  institution  of  property. 

Now  the  main  object  for  which  govern- 
ment is  organized  is  to  guard  property. 
When  man  had  nothing  of  his  own  except 
his  life  and  his  limbs,  he  did  not  establish 
government  to  defend  them.  Not  till  he 
began  to  accumulate  property  did  he 
realize  the  necessity  for  organization  to 
guard  and  secure  it. 

How  could  civilization  in  any  form 
survive  if  property — the  very  foundation 
of  government — be  swept  away?  Here 
is  the  problem  which  is  almost  certain 
to  confront  Christian  civilization  the 
moment  it  is  finally  delivered  from  the 
peril  of  destruction  which  for  the  last 
four  years  has  menaced  it  on  the  battle- 
field. 

If  in  the  days  that  are  approaching  we 
in  this  country  find  ourselves  compelled 
to  face  a tide  of  revolution  which,  if 
unchecked,  must  make  government  a 
force  not  to  protect  property  but  to 
destroy  it — that  is  to  say,  which  must 
pervert  government  to  perpetration  of 
the  very  mischiefs  government  is  organ- 
ized to  prevent — where  can  we  turn  for 
help  and  strength  except  to  the  moral 


influences  represented  here  not  merely  by 
the  churches,  but  by  the  Salvation  Army, 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  other  philanthrophic 
bodies  which  are  at  once  the  glory  and 
the  strength  of  this  Republic? 

Through  these  forces  of  morality  and 
justice  the  tide  of  American  soldiers 
returning  triumphant  from  the  theatre 
of  war  will  be  moved,  trained  and 
qualified  to  become  firm  pillars  of  the 
constitutional  system  which  is  distinc- 
tively American,  an  immovable  bulwark 
of  the  civilization  which  is  called  Christian. 

In  this  hour  of  victory  over  the  foe 
that  has  threatened  us  these  many 
months,  we  need  not  then  falter  or  quail 
over  other  dangers  that  may  hereafter 
confront  us.  Whatever  difficulties  may 
arise,  we  will  go  forward  confidently  to 
meet  them,  because  we  know  that  these 
bodies,  representing  the  spiritual  forces 
of  this  nation,  will  remain  organized  and 
united.  Their  union  will  be  permanent, 
because  they  have  all  come  to  understand 
— as  this  great  gathering  conclusively 
shows — that  however  divergent  the  be- 
liefs they  profess,  however  different  the 
rites  they  observe,  there  is  one  prayer 
common  to  them  all.  It  arises  in  identical 
words  from  every  edifice  dedicated  to  the 
worship  of  God  throughout  this  country. 
It  is  a feature  of  the  liturgy  which  the 
Episcopalian  follows.  It  is  part  of  the 
invocations  addressed  to  the  Throne  of 
Grace  by  men  and  women  of  all  Christian 
denominations.  It  animates  the  fervor 
of  the  Jewish  synagogue.  It  ascends  to 
Heaven  with  the  incense  that  is  burned 
before  the  Catholic  altar.  And  that 
prayer  is  “God  bless  our  land.” 

While  we  all  remain  united  and  sincere 
in  that  supplication,  we  can  with  entire 
safety  leave  the  future  of  this  country 
and  of  this  civilization  to  that  Omnipo- 
tent Power  Whose  Might  and  Mercy  we 
acknowledge  and  on  Whose  Beneficence 
we  can  repose  today  with  renewed  con- 


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One  Nation  — One  Cause 


fidence,  because  this  vast  assemblage  are  resolved — unanimously  and  inflexibly 
affords  impressive  proof  of  the  deep  — to  make  order  secure,  liberty  universal 
piety  with  which  the  American  people  and  justice  supreme  throughout  the  world. 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

We  will  now  have  selections  by  the  Paulist  Choristers 

The  Paulist  Choristers 

“Send  forth  Thy  Spirit” 

“Lift  Thine  Eyes” 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

Now  that  we  have  heard  from  Protestant  and  Jew  and  Catholic,  express- 
ing our  unity  of  purpose,  it  is  fitting  that  we  should  hear  from  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  people  of  the  United  States  who,  bearing  the  peculiar  burden 
of  the  administration  of  our  military  force,  comes  to  us  deeply  conscious  of  the  aid 
and  co-operation  of  these  agencies,  and  bearing  a special  message  by  reason  of  his 
recent  visit  to  the  battlefront.  I introduce  the  Secretary  of  War, 

Hon.  Newton  D.  Baker 


My  principal  duty  this  afternoon  is  to 
tell  you,  as  American  citizens,  in  very 
brief  phrase,  some  of  the  things  which 
have  already  been  done  by  the  superb 
co-operation  of  the  moral  forces  of  America 
for  the  making  of  the  great  army  and  the 
vindication  of  a great  cause;  and  when  I 
shall  have  done  that,  I trust  I will  have 
pointed  out  sufficiently  the  need  of  still 
further  co-operation  and  still  further  effort. 

When  America  went  into  this  war  and 
the  problem  came  of  assembling  a great 
army,  I imagine  there  were  many  mis- 
givings on  the  part  of  people  who  had 
read  in  books  some  of  the  accompanying 
things  which  had  sometimes  followed  in 
the  wake. 

Those  who  had  read,  for  instance, 
Tolstoy’s  “Peace  and  War,”  drew  a 
picture  of  conditions  among  armies  which 
might  well  have  caused  the  stoutest 
heart  to  quake  with  apprehension,  not 


for  the  perils  of  battle,  but  rather  for  the 
perils  of  preparation  for  battle. 

Instantly  there  arose  in  the  United 
States,  however,  a determination  reach- 
ing from  one  end  of  the  country  to  the 
other,  that  when  our  boys  came  back  from 
France  they  should  bring  with  them  no 
scars  except  those  won  in  honorable  war- 
fare. 

Fathers  and  mothers  in  communities 
formed  organizations,  churches  expended 
their  social  activities  and  opened  then- 
doors  to  the  young  men  inducted  into  the 
army;  societies  of  all  sorts  were  formed 
and  ultimately  coalesced  with  certain 
existing  agencies  as  being  perhaps  the 
best  equipped  to  carry  on  this  work,  and 
the  seven  societies  which  have  been 
enumerated  by  Judge  Hughes  this  after- 
noon are  the  final  outcome.  They  repre- 
sent the  concentrated  moral  purpose  of 
America  for  the  making  of  a highly 


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One  Nation 


One  Cause 


wholesome  and  efficient  army,  and  for  the 
preservation  of  the  young  manhood  of 
this  nation. 

It  would  be  quite  impossible,  even 
were  the  time  at  my  disposal  much  longer 
than  it  is,  to  give  you  any  adequate  idea 
of  the  American  army  in  France.  They 
are  wonderful  boys. 

I have  seen  them  in  every  possible 
situation — living  in  great  camps,  billeted 
among  the  residences  of  the  French  peo- 
ple in  villages,  sleeping  in  the  haymows 
and  out  of  the  way  places  of  ruined  and 
desolated  cities  and  towns.  I have  seen 
them  swinging  along  the  country  roads, 
singing  and  smiling  as  they  drew  near  to 
the  sound  of  cannon.  I have  seen  them 
cutting  wood  for  widowed  French  women 
that  they  might  keep  their  houses  warm, 
helping  children  and  aged  people  to 
gather  crops  which  otherwise  would  have 
gone  to  waste. 

At  the  Battle  of 
San  Mihiel 

I saw  them  on  one  particular  morning, 
when  the  guns  had  concentrated  around 
the  San  Mihiel  salient  until  more  than 
2,500  cannon  were  simultaneously  lifting 
up  their  terrible  voices  over  a front  of 
thirty-five  miles.  I saw  them  romping 
over  the  top  and  at  the  enemy  until  they 
had  executed  perhaps  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  achievements  of  this  present  war. 

Broad  shouldered  and  upstanding, 
characterized  by  an  almost  uniform  ap- 
pearance of  youth,  smooth  shaven,  clean 
faces,  peerless  looking,  and  utterly  un- 
daunted, no  matter  what  the  danger, 
and  when  wounded  and  brought  back 
from  the  battlefield  on  stretchers  and 
taken  to  hospitals,  still  smiling  with 
lifted  up  faces  and  sense  of  having  been 
glorified  by  having  met  the  great  test 
and  having  succeeded.  Such  young  men, 
such  an  army,  can  come  only  out  of  the 
homes  of  a wholesome  and  moral  people. 


They  can  be  trained  only  in  an  environ- 
ment that  surrounds  them  with  uplifting 
impulses.  They  can  go  forward  into  bat- 
tle with  that  sort  of  dash  only  when  they 
understand  their  cause  and  know  it  is 
just. 

And,  they  can  transmute  the  glory  of 
battle  and  the  courage  of  the  battlefront 
into  those  high  and  enduring  qualities 
of  citizenship,  when  they  come  home, 
which  are  needed  for  the  further  safe 
conduct  of  this  great  republic  of  ours, 
they  can  make  that  transmutation  only 
if  they  continue  to  be  surrounded  by  our 
love,  our  care,  our  confidence,  and  the 
same  sort  of  provision  with  which  we 
sent  them  forth. 

The  Soldier  Remembers  no 
Difference  or  Distinction 

Something  has  been  said — much  has 
been  said  this  afternoon — about  the  abate- 
ment of  doctrinal  differences  and  the 
momentary  forgetfulness  of  the  distinc- 
tions of  creed.  It  ought  to  be  very  easy 
for  us  to  do  that  for  them.  They  do  not 
remember  any  such  distinctions  or  dif- 
ferences. 

I stood  in  a church  in  France,  an  ancient 
Catholic  church  already  partially  de- 
molished by  shells  of  the  enemy,  then 
within  the  sound  and  within  the  reach  of 
the  enemy’s  guns.  I was  taken  into  the 
meeting  then  going  on,  led,  as  I now 
recall  it,  by  a couple  of  Jewish  boys,  and 
I found  in  this  Catholic  church  the 
Catholic  pastor  officiating,  and  when  he 
had  gone  a certain  way  he  gave  over  his 
place  to  the  Protestant  chaplain  who 
finished  the  service  in  order  that  all  might 
receive  comfort  according  to  their  own 
desires. 

I have  been  in  hospitals  where  Jew  and 
Gentile,  Protestant  and  Catholic,  lie 
side  by  side,  suffer  together,  hope  bravely 
together,  waited  upon  by  nurses  and  doc- 
tors and  ministers  of  religions,  sometimes 


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One  Nation 


One  Cause 


by  accident  of  their  own  faith,  and  often 
not,  but  I have  heard  there  no  shadow  of 
suggestion  of  any  division  among  them. 
They  are  a cheerful  lot. 

I heard  one  boy  in  a hospital,  who  had 
lost  both  legs  and  both  arms — I said  to 
him,  “My  lad,  you  surely  had  hard  luck 
at  the  front,”  and  he  gave  me  a smile 
which  has  become  a permanent  possession 
with  me,  as  he  said,  “Well,  I am  glad  I 
have  my  health  and  strength  left.” 

I stood  by  an  open  grave  in  France  at 
the  end  of  a line  of  white  crosses,  the  like 
of  which  now  reaches  almost  from  the 
English  Channel  to  the  Swiss  frontier, 
and  saw  an  American  soldier  laid  away, 
wrapped  in  the  flag  of  his  country,  and  as 
the  procession  came  up  the  village  road, 
I was  interested  to  notice  that  it  was 
headed  by  the  village  priest  and  a Pro- 
testant chaplain,  arm  in  arm,  and  that 
when  the  last  rites  had  been  performed, 
the  little  company  of  villagers  who  had 
followed  that  lonely  boy  to  his  last  resting 
place  were  made  up  of  old  French  women 
and  little  French  children,  and  they 
stayed  there  just  to  weep  over  this  boy 
for  a moment  longer,  in  order  that  some 
day  perhaps  his  mother’s  heart  in  a 
distant  land  would  be  comforted  to  know 
that  there  had  not  been  lack  of  woman’s 
tears  at  his  burial. 

Living  in  the  Land  of 
Heroic  Adventure 

It  is  a wonderful  country,  the  land  of 
heroic  adventure,  the  land  of  high  think- 
ing and  unselfish  acting,  the  place  where 
men’s  minds  dwell  upon  one  thing  and 
one  thing  only,  where  all  minor  differ- 
ences have  been  put  aside,  where  men  are 
brothers  because  they  are  inseparably 
drawn  to  one  another  by  common  perils 
of  the  most  tremendous  sort. 

They  have  abated  these  little  distinc- 
tions of  doctrines  and  of  creed ; they  have 
surrendered  nothing,  each  of  them,  of  the 


faith  of  his  fathers;  but  they  have  ac- 
quired, and  are  demonstrating  for  us 
and  in  the  eyes  of  the  world,  a new  and 
uniting  faith.  They  are  showing  the 
virility  and  virtue  with  which  democracy 
baptizes  her  children  and  makes  them  one 
when  virtue  is  at  stake. 

I have  seen  those  boys  in  France,  and 
my  mind  has  returned  to  America  with 
feelings  of  inexpressible  emotion  and 
gratitude  that  we  sent  them  as  we  did 
send  them,  and  that  we  surrounded 
them  with  the  agencies  with  which  they 
were  surrounded;  that  our  consciences 
were  awake  and  quick  in  the  hour  of  their 
peril,  and  that  we  have  sent  them  to  a 
country  where  they  fight  like  heroes  and 
live  like  gentlemen. 

I rather  imagine  from  some  of  the 
things  which  have  been  said  here,  that 
there  is  an  apprehension  on  the  part  of 
the  committee  lest  people  may  fear  that 
the  war  will  come  to  an  early  end,  and 
therefore  withhold  their  subscriptions  to 
this  fund. 

The  War  for  Young  American 
Manhood  is  not  to  End 

I do  not  know  when  this  war  against 
the  German  Empire  will  come  to  an  end, 
but  I know  this,  that  the  war  for  the 
salvation  of  young  American  manhood 
has  only  just  begun,  and  it  is  going  to 
keep  on. 

It  is  true  that  if  the  war  should  come 
to  an  early  end  it  will  take  a long  time  to 
get  these  boys  home,  and  they  will  have 
to  be  put  in  camps  in  the  United  States 
and  gradually  filtered  back  into  the 
industry  and  life  of  America  and  it  will 
be  a long  drawn-out  process  and  the 
attacks  of  homesickness  and  the  desire 
to  get  back  into  the  careers  of  civilian 
pursuits  will  be  more  difficult  for  them 
to  manage  than  when  they  are  drawn  by 
the  single  loadstar  which  challenges  them 
to  heroic  action. 


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One  Cause 


One  Nation 

There  will  be  need  for  us  to  redouble 
our  efforts  and  to  put  both  arms  around 
these  boys,  if  only  one  has  heretofore 
encircled  them. 

Because  it  has  Won 
Victories  over  Itself 

And  therefore,  Mr.  Chairman  and 
Gentlemen  of  the  Committee,  I express 
these  sentiments  today,  one  of  con- 
gratulation to  the  American  people  upon 
the  superb  army  it  has  abroad,  an  army 
which  is  winning  victories  over  its 
enemies  because  it  first  won  victories 
over  itself. 

And  the  second  thought  I desire  to 
express  is  one  of  appreciation  to  the 
American  people  for  their  intelligent 
co-operation,  their  superb  support  of 
those  who  have  been  charged  with  the 
duty  of  moulding  this  army  and  getting 
it  abroad,  the  splendid  way  in  which  the 
whole  country  has  come  together  as  one, 
forgetting  every  source  of  separatist 
difference  of  opinion  in  order  that  the 
common  things  might  prevail. 

And  the  third  sentiment  is  to  say 
with  as  much  solemnity  as  I can  say  it, 
that  even  greater  difficulties  face  us  in 
these  matters  about  which  we  are  now 
concerned,  than  have  faced  us  in  the 
past. 


It  would  be  a tragical  thing  if  all  of 
this  youth  and  virtue,  all  of  this  con- 
centration upon  high  things,  be  not 
brought  back  to  us  as  a high  and  trained 
capacity  for  citizenship. 

The  nation’s  greatest  asset,  the  pearl  of 
great  price  to  us,  the  thing  that  will 
make  our  civilization  solid  and  sub- 
stantial, make  it  admired  of  all  men  for 
all  time,  and  give  us  the  greatest  comfort 
that  institutions  can  give  to  men,  that 
thing  is  this  great-spirited  army  that  we 
now  have  abroad. 

We  must  press  this  campaign  forward; 
we  must  secure  these  funds,  we  must 
continue  the  services  of  the  devoted  men 
and  devoted  women  who  are  there  now, 
sharing  the  dangers  of  the  front,  and  the 
privations  of  the  soldier’s  life. 

We  must  maintain  and  increase  then- 
activity  with  our  soldier  boys,  and  when 
those  boys  do  come  home,  think  what  an 
inspiration  it  will  be  to  them  to  realize 
that  when  they  went  into  battle,  for- 
getting and  abating  all  minor  differences 
in  the  interest  of  their  patriotic  loyalty 
and  desire  to  do  their  duty,  that  we  were 
not  found  wanting  on  our  side,  that  we 
abated  our  differences,  and  made  a 
united  effort  to  sustain  the  thing  here  for 
which  they  were  giving  their  lives  there. 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

We  will  now  sing  the  verse  upon  the  program  “ God  Save  our  Splendid  Men,”  led  by 

Tali  Esen  Morgan 

God  save  our  splendid  men, 

Send  them  safe  home  again, 

God  save  our  men. 

Keep  them  victorious, 

Patient  and  chivalrous, 

They  are  so  dear  to  us, 

God  save  our  men. 


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One  Nation  — One  Cause 


Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes — 

The  Benediction  will  now  be  pronounced  by 

His  Eminence  James  Cardinal  Gibbons 


May  the  blessing  of  Almighty  God, 
Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost,  descend 
upon  this  vast  concourse  of  people,  and 
may  His  blessings  be  poured  forth  abund- 
antly upon  all  that  will  take  part  in 
providing  for  the  health  and  comfort  of 
our  brave  soldiers  who  are  in  the  camps 
or  fighting  at  the  front.  And  may  the 
harmony  and  concord  and  enthusiasm 
which  have  marked  this  vast  assemblage, 
be  the  earnest  and  the  forerunner  of  the 
mighty  shout  of  exultation  that  will 
pierce  the  land  from  end  to  end  when 
peace  shall  be  declared,  a peace  that 
shall  be  the  fruit  of  a glorious  and  a 
decisive  victory. 

And  when  our  brave  boys  shall  come 


back,  after  accomplishing  their  mighty 
task,  may  the  anthem  of  the  Royal 
Prophet  be  chanted  in  every  church 
and  house  of  prayer  throughout  the  land. 
May  that  glorious  anthem  of  Trust  in 
God  Alone  spring  from  every  devout  and 
grateful  heart,  “Not  unto  us,  0 Lord, 
not  unto  us,  but  unto  Thy  Name  give 
glory.” 

Our  Father,  Who  art  in  Heaven, 
hallowed  by  Thy  Name,  Thy  Kingdom 
come,  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is 
in  Heaven.  Give  us  this  day  our  daily 
bread,  and  forgive  us  our  trespasses,  as 
we  forgive  those  who  trespass  against  us; 
lead  us  not  into  temptation,  but  deliver 
us  from  evil.  Amen. 


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